Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-21

! QulSlte, and all G0e characters so enrap-
turing, I cannot quit them" My brother,
my sister, you can find styles of htera-
ture Just as charming that will elevate
and purify. and ennoble, and Christian
lie while they please. The devil does
not own all the honey. There is a wealth
of good books coming forth from our pub
! fishing houses that leaves no excuse for
the choice OF that which is debaucning to
! body, mind and soul. Go to some intel
ligent men or women, and ask for list of
! books that will be Strengthening to your
mental and moral condition. Life is so
short and your time for improvement so
abbreviated, that you cannot afford to fill
up with husks, and cinders and debris.
! In the interstices of business that young
nan Is reading that which will prepafc
| him to be a merchant prince, and that
! young woman is filling her mind with an
| intelligence that viii yet either make her
! the chief attraction of g good mans home
! or give her an independence of character
| that will qualify her to build her own
! home and maintain it In happiness that
requires no augmentation from any of our
rougher sex. That young man or young
woman can by the right literary and moral
! improvement Of the spare ten minutes
here or there in every day, rise head and
shoulders in prosperity, and character,
and Influence above the louDgers who
! read nothing or read that which bedWarfs.
J See all the forests of good American
literature dripping with honey. Why
! pick up the honey combs that have in
them
THE FIERY BEES
which will sting you with an eternal
| poison while you taste it? One book may
! for you or me decide everything for this
world or the next. 1t was a turning
| point with me when in Wynk oops book
store, Syracuse, one day l picked up
/ booked called "The Beauties Of Ruskin."
! 1t was only book of extracts but it was
! all pure honey, ana l was not satisfied
until hsd purchased all his works, at
that time expensive beyond an easy Ca
pacity to own them, and what heaven l
went through in reading his "Seven
! Lamps Of Architecture" and his "Stones
of Venice" it is impossible for me to de-
| scribe except by saying that it gave me
rapture for good books, a1d an everlasS-
| ing disgust for decripit or immoral books
that Will last me while my immortal soul
lasts. Ali around the church and the
world to-day there are busy hives Of
intelligence occupied by authors and au-
| thoresses from whose pens drip distilla-
ton which is the very nectar Of heaven,
ana why will you thrust your rod OF in
! quieitiVeness into The beautiful sacchar-
Inc of perdition?
Stimulating liquids sls0 come into the
category of temptations delicious but
! beautiful. You say: 81 cannot bear the
taste of intoXjc sting liquor, and how any
man can like it is to me an amazement."
! I'll iS No RI bof
do not take it. Do not brag about your
total abstinence, because it is not from
any principle thai you reject alcoholism,
| out for the same reason that you reject
certain styles of food-you simply don't
! Ike the taste of them. But muItitudes Of
! p -ople have natural fondness for all
kinds OF intoxicant. They like it so much
tlat it makes them
SMACK THEIR LIPs
ID look at IL. They are dyspeptic, and
they take it TO sid digestion; or they are
annoyed by insomnia, and they take it TO
! produce sleep; or they are troubled, and
! hey take it to make them Obvious; or
| they feel good, and they must celebrate
their hilarity. They begin with mint
! iuIip sucked through two straws on the
! Long Branch piszz2, and end N the
ditch, taking from 8 Jug liquid half
! kerosene and half whisky. They not only
! like it, but it is an all cOnsum ng passion
| of body, mind and soul, aud after 8 while
have it they will, though one wine glass
of 1t should cost the temporal and eternal
! destruction OF themselves, and all their
! families, and the whole human race. They
would say: "I am sorry it is going to
| cost me, and my family, and all the
worlds population SO very much, but
! here it goes to my lips, and now let it
roll over my parched tongue and down
my heated throat, the sweetest, the
most inspiring, the most r0pturous thing
! that ever thrilled mortal or immortal Z"
! To cure the habit before it comes to
| its last stages, various plans were tried
| in olden times. This plan was recon-
mended in the books: When q man
wanted to reform he put shot or bullets
into the cup or glass of strong drInk-one
additional shot or bullet each day, that
displaced so much liquor. Bullet after
outlet added day by Gay, of course the
! liquor became less and less until the bull
les would entirely fill up the glass and
there was no room for the liquid, aud by
that time it was said the inebriate would
! be cured. Whether any one ever was
cured in that way I know not, but by
lOUS III 10 AOuuu luhb buC OuIJ
way is to stop short off, and when man
does that he needs God to neIp him. And
| there have beeL more cases t2an you can
count when God has SO helped the man
that he quit forever, and 1 could count
score of them here to- day, some of them
pillars in the house Of God.
! One would suppose that men would
take warning from some of the
! OMNIBUS NAMES
given to intoXlcants, and stand on from
the devastating influence. You have
noticed, for instance that some Of the res
taurants are called "The Shades" typical
of the fact thst 1t puts mans reputation
in the shade, and his morals in the shade,
and his wife and children in the shade,
and his prosperity in the shade, and his
immortal destiny in the shade.
Now, 1 find on some Of the liquor signs
in all our cities the words sod Crow"
nightly sug2 estive of carcass, and the
filthy raven that swoops upon it. "Oid
| CroWi" Men and women without num-
bers slain of rum but unburied, and this
evil is peckiDg at their glazed eyes, and
pecking at their bloated cheek, and
peCkiDg at their destroyed manhood and
Womanhood, thrusting beak and claw
into the mortal remains Of what was once
gloriously alive but now morally dead.
! "Old Crow!" But alas, how many take
no warning. They make me think of
Caesar on his way TO assassination, fear
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